Ferrier v. Commercial Steel Corp.

Plaintiffs sought to recover the reasonable value for work performed for defendants in laundering, ironing, and removing ink imprints from some 210,000 cotton bags that had been damaged in a flood (see Simon v. Bemis Bros. Bag Co., 131 Cal.App.2d 378 [280 P.2d 528]). They alleged the reasonable value of the work and labor performed was $7,500, of which only $1,000 had been paid.

In their answer defendants alleged that the processing of these bags was pursuant to a written contract in which plaintiffs agreed to do the work in question for .029 cents per pound; that the weight of these bags was…